Compared with last season's strong and star-studded Rockets, this season's Rockets are getting more and more unfamiliar. Among the players who played for the Rockets last season, only Gordon, House, and Nuwaba were left in the team. It is worth mentioning that David Nuwaba was only in the rematch last season. He signed with the Rockets before, but due to injury, he did not play for the Rockets in the regular season and playoffs after the rematch. That is to say, although Nuwaba was with the Rockets last season, he Only started playing for the Rockets this season.
So strictly speaking, only Gordon and House were players in the Rockets lineup last season. At present, there are many new faces in the Rockets lineup. Except for famous players such as Wood, Wall, and Olynyk, the Rockets are full of a large number of unknown newcomers. Most of these players have joined in the past 1-2 months. Rockets, such as swingman Dakan Jeffries, guard Armoni Brooks, small forward Anthony Lamb.
In the past 3 days, the Rockets signed 2 more players, one is free agent guard Kyrie Thomas, and the other is the just-signed small forward Cameron Oliver from overseas basketball leagues. Why did the Rockets sign 2 degrees in 3 days? There are two reasons. First, many players of the Rockets were injured and unable to play. In the last two games against the Bucks and the Jazz, only 8 players of the Rockets can play, and Tate and Olynyk still lead the game. Injured.
So logically, the Rockets have to bring in new recruits to deal with the last few games.Second, these fringe players have performed well in the Rockets' game, such as Kyrie Thomas, who had just scored 27 points, 5 rebounds and 3 assists in the previous game, and Brooks, Jeffreys and Lan who once entered the Rockets' starting lineup. um. It is precisely because of the excellent performance of these players that the Rockets have tasted the sweetness of "picking up leaks", and thus have the motivation to continue to introduce free agents.
Signing free agents who have been cut/bought out, going to the G-League to bring in new players, and going to overseas leagues to find some available players are the three major signing methods the Rockets are best at this season. These three means of signing, the Rockets do not need to send players and draft picks as chips, nor do they have to pay these players too high salaries. If these players can really make a fortune in the game, the Rockets will use another one in the offseason. It’s not too late to keep them on a long-term contract, otherwise it’s better to just cut them or let these players leave the team freely when the contract expires.
This kind of recruiting method can be described as quite shrewd. The cost and chips are basically equal to 0, and only a basic salary/two-way contract or a 10-day short contract can "try out" these newcomers. In fact, in recent years, the Rockets have been using this method to recruit, such as House back then and Tate now used these methods to join the Rockets and become the team's main rotation player.
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